Pregnancy Loss

Losing a baby is one of the most devastating experiences one can go through. Sadly, pregnancy losses are often not talked about and women enduring them can feel utterly alone, ashamed, overwhelmed by their grief. It can be difficult to know how to talk about the loss or who to talk about it with, and when you do you may get responses that while well-meaning, do not comfort or acknowledge your pain in the way that you need. Whether your loss occurred early on, later in pregnancy or during birth, your feelings are real, valid and need to be expressed.

Mothers who have experienced losses during pregnancy often feel:

Anxious and fearful about trying to conceive again

Upset seeing pregnant women around them

Depressed and empty

Defective and unsure about what caused the loss

Guilt or preoccupation about what she did or didn't do during the pregnancy

Discouraged or despairing about being able to conceive

Overwhelmed by medical procedures and testing

Isolated and alone

Therapy during this extremely tender and vulnerable time can help you process your feelings about the loss, move through your grief and heal this painful experience. Having a safe and supportive place to share all of your feelings is a crucial part of healing. We are not meant to grieve alone.

Jennifer Chance provides affordable, sliding-scale psychotherapy services in San Francisco. She works with grief, trauma, premarital counseling, pregnancy loss, infertility, postpartum, relationship problems, sexuality, life transitions and highly sensitive people. Her office is easily located on Irving Street in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco, and is near Mill Valley, Sausalito, Marin and other bay area cities.